Geezer Tribe: When gardeners become hoarders
by Linda Shaffer As a couple about to celebrate 40 years of marriage, you can guess that we have some things in common. Not all things because that would be […]
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Geezer Tribe: When smaller is more fun
by Linda Shaffer Several years ago I noticed that my mom started coveting little things. Among those were travel sized personal products, miniature candy bars, cheese and cracker snack packs […]
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Geezer Tribe: The road from MTV to OPB
by Linda Shaffer Long ago (30 years) and far away (73 miles) we moved to a town that offered up a great job for me at the Dallas Itemizer-Observer and […]
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GEEZER TRIBE: Winning and losing
by Linda Shaffer There is so much going on in this world of ours that it is easy to get swept up by it all and overwhelmed. That doesn’t even […]
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Remember when we loved to hide out?
by Linda Shaffer One of the best parts of getting old is that most of our days leave a memory behind and our lives leave a real treasure chest of […]
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GEEZER TRIBE: Why it’s so darned hard to toss out food
by Linda Shaffer Last night I decided to use up a packaged sauce mix which had lived in our cupboard for a long, long time. When I opened the package, […]
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Geezer Tribe: The trouble with ‘gullfriends’
by Linda Shaffer Winter may not bring much snow to the Oregon Coast but it sure does bring the seagulls. I don’t mean to imply that they go away any […]
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The ups and downs of social media
by Linda Shaffer Go figure. After spending 35 years in the newspaper business I am addicted to news. This can be good news or bad and I take it any […]
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Bears with furniture
by Linda Shaffer Last summer, I’m pretty sure I wrote something about living in a world of quarantine and the effects it had on our lives. At the time I […]
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GEEZER TRIBE: Treasures abound in old cook books
by Linda Shaffer A few years back, my Old Aunt Wanda gave me a box filled with cook books. The box was marked with my name and hers. It should […]
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